Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> As a footnote to this past thread, I’ve asked someone who has spent the last 25 years looking at, UK quilts (a member of the Quilt Treasures documentation team) if she has come across dyed wool wadding. I also…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 | From: Donald Beld <donbeld@> Hi, I am in the process of donating a Garfield’s Monument quilt my great-great-grandmother, Perthina Bailey, (don’t you love her first name) made in the mid to late 1880 to the Lincoln Shrine in Redlands, California. However, it has…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 2 Oct | From: Marthapatches36@ What a wonderful ending, so glad a quilter looked in the box. l Hate to think our airlines and/or airports would have deliberately taken it. Date: Thu, 2 Oct [date inferred — no Date: header in source] | From: diane shink <dimacquilt@>…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 05 Sep | From: Joan Kiplinger <jkip> Now on eboard — an unusual redwork quilt c1880s belonging to Ruth Rhoades. http://vintagepictures.eboard.com Select quilt tab. Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:28:49 -0400 | From: “Joe MacDonald” <jmacdon6maine.> I have a question about cotton batting. I have been hand…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:07:40 -0400 | From: “judygrow” <judygrow> Dear QHLer’s, The following reminder just went out to the regular attendees of the Studio Quilt Study Group. If any of you plan to be anywhere near west central NJ, you are invited to join us. I hope…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 26 Aug | From: “Charlotte Bull” <charloumo-net.com> Dear Sue, Thanks for the fascinating details on the names. I printed off the letter as I want to challenge myself to see what my personal score will be. I certainly can ID many of them. My history classes are…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 21 Aug | From: Gloria Hanrahan <gloriaak.net> The glue that was used on my quilt top must be something different. It has dried rather clear and hard. I would think the flour paste would have been a temporary fix, meant to be washed out of the fabric….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 | From: Countrycupboard7@ I LOVED the Victoria mag. I loved the photography, the literary references and deco ideas. Each to his own, I guess! lol I did pick up “Southern Lady” which is a little similar. Kind of a southern victorian feel. I think…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: [date unknown] | From: Pat Kyser > Re Pilar’s question about putting the quilt under glass: > This is not scientific, but it worked. About twenty years ago I was given a gorgeous appliqued miniature quilt. To protect it from dust and Alabama humidity, I wanted it framed….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:52:54 -0400 | From: Joan Kiplinger Jill – It appears what you are describing is carding equipment for specialty manufacturing. Industrial carding machines are huge machines and the process is so sophisticated today that often combing is not required to achieve the same effect…